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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
12
NWAS seED CAKES and plum puddings advertised with multiple sizes. Queens Own pork pies and assorted biscuit varieties listed. Wafers, biscuits, seed waters, and seed cakes priced from 1/9 to 4/4. Muscatels in 1 lb boxes offered at 2/6 with assorted 8 Crown items highlighted.
In a letter to the editor, the author warns that a sugar surplus threatens North Queensland, arguing that wage cuts or power alcohol fail to solve the crisis. He urges a government enacted five year production plan, with a commission to allocate mill tonnages and protect farmers, while critiquing alternative views and calling for farmer input.
Letter from M L A Pease attacks Mr Hudson and the Sugar Board over the 1928 agreement terms and price projections for sugar growers and mills. He questions actions taken to present the issue to the Prime Minister and criticizes concessions to confectionery and jam industries while praising Imperial Preference on non-sugar exports. A companion anecdote describes a woman's plea to bring ham eggs and whisky for her ailing mother.
The protracted battle between the Australian Workers Union led by George Belled and Timothy Moroney and the Stonestead Branch of the Australian Always Union sees the AWU ahead on points. A Brisbane Trades and Labor Council meeting backed by the Communist Party signals moves toward a special conference to influence the February Labor platform, while Premier Gillies faces a proposed Royal Commission on the Abrams matter. The city remains unsettled yet expects a busier post Christmas period as trade and river ferry plans progress and markets adjust.
A fragment suggests King Edward VII might not have sent a spiritist message calling himself Teddy during a seance. The note contrasts his etiquette as monarch with the idea of requesting a spirit medium to use a nickname.
The Ay Bishop of York delivered a pageant speech at Werbley on Empire Day urging unity and a spiritual bond within the British Empire. He invoked duty, brotherhood, and loyalty to the King and Empire, urging collective effort to expand good governance, education, and moral purpose across dominions and colonized lands.
A diner scene shows a hostile hostess scowling at a vehemence laden manoon. The man complains about seating and questions the offer, declaring the situation one of the worst mistakes of his life.
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